Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 12:08:13 09/14/99
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On September 14, 1999 at 09:26:28, James Flanagan wrote: >I'm just getting started setting up Winboard with the Crafty engine on a PC >(Win98, AMD K6-2/350, 64Mb RAM, 8.4+18.2Gb disks), and I have a lot of questions >about getting started: > >I'm having trouble (I think I am, anyway) getting Crafty to recognize the table >bases that I downloaded. In Crafty's Log file created during each game I never >see a 'tablebase probed' value other than zero. The documentation says to put >'tbpath=<whatever directory the tablebases are in>' into the command line. My >tablebase files are in "e:crafty\tb\". I have tried all permutations and >combinations of putting 'tbpath=e:crafty\tb\' into the winboard command line, >but continue to get a variety of error messages and 'tablebase probed=0' in the >logfile. My current command string in the Winboard shortcut Properties is as >follows: > >"C:\Program Files\WinBoard\winboard.exe" -cp -fcp "GNUchess" -scp "crafty >winboard" -sd "e:\crafty" -fd "c:\program files\winboard" > >If anyone with a Windows machine has a similar setup and is successfully using >tablebases, I would appreciate seeing your winboard.ini and crafty.rc files and >your command string for starting winboard. > Check the name of the tablebases. Files are sometimes renamed when downloading, has happened more than once with tablebases. The correct names should be something like kqk.nbb.emd, etc. often one of the colons is replaced by an underscore. José. >Other questions: > >How should I set my cache and other adjustable parameters in winboard and >Crafty? > >How big should the cache be with 64Mb of RAM? > >Are there any other critical parameters that I need to set to get optimum >performance? > >Should ponder mode be on or off when in computer v. computer mode? > >Can two instances of Crafty play against each other (one black and one white) >and both use the tablebases? > >Is it possible for Crafty and Fritz to play together? Fritz seems confined to >ChessBase and Crafty to Winboard. Is there any common ground for these two >engines? > >Can anyone tell me which engines that run in analysis mode under Winboard are >the strongest? I know that there are dozens of different engines, but which are >the best? > >Thanx. >-JamesF99
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